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Does size matter? It does if you're French...and a chess-loving hacker!
It's Chess, Captain, but not as we know it! A French programmer has broken a record that's stood for more than 30 years: the smallest chess program in the world. Sort of...
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IsAnybodyDown's Craig Brittain banned from the 'revenge porn' business
The operator of a 'revenge porn' website got away with a slapped wrist after publishing nude photos of over 1,000 women online.
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WhatsApp Web has privacy holes that could expose user photos
WhatsApp has just rolled out a new service called WhatsApp Web that allows users to sync the messaging app between their mobile devices and desktop, but the new web client has a couple of privacy...
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ZeroAccess click fraud botnet coughs back to life
The once-mighty "ZeroAccess" botnet is now only a shadow of its former self, but its reputation alone still makes it a headline grabber...
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The GHOST in the machine - 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here's our weekly one-minute security video. Sending spam, cracking the Blackphone and the GHOST in the machine. Enjoy...
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Monday review - the hot 25 stories of the week
Get yourself up to date with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
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Google to change privacy policy after settling case with ICO
Google and the ICO have settled a case over the company's privacy policy being too vague, with the upshot being that policy changes are now in the works.
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Baby monitor hijacked; change default password urges Foscam
A nanny was spooked last week by a cyber creep peeping in on her via a baby monitor while she changed a baby's diaper.
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Anatomy of a browser dilemma - how HSTS 'supercookies' make you choose...
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is supposed to keep you more secure online, but it could be used to track you against your will. Mark Stockley explains...
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Facebook's got a new privacy policy, and it plans to share your data with...
As Facebook's new privacy policy comes into force users can expect more sharing of their data and 'enhanced' targeting of adverts across partnered websites.
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Hackers breach password database at Atlassian's "HipChat" collaboration service
Hip software company Atlassian has had the hackers in. It sounds as though the outcome won't be too bad, but it does remind you: choose a better password than everyone else!
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Google redesigns security warnings after 70% of Chrome users ignore them
You can strip jargon, but in the end, the warnings that work best are those with visual throb: pick the right colors and hide the wrong choices!
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Google extends its all-seeing eye, invites third party apps to Google Now
Google's opened up its Google Now digital assistant to 40 third party apps, including Pandora, Lyft, TripAdvisor, eBay and RunKeeper.
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News Flash! 3rd time unlucky! New 0-day hits Adobe's browser plug-in...
Ready to kiss goodbye to Flash in your browser yet? Here's the 3rd zero-day in Flash since Adobe's last Patch Tuesday...
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"Exploit This": Evaluating the exploit skills of malware groups
SophosLabs researcher Gabor Szappanos compares APT actors and cybercrooks. A comparative review of malware writers! A fascinating study, well worth a read...
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Google, Amazon, Microsoft pay to get ads past Adblock Plus
Ad-buying big boys Google, Amazon, Microsoft and the content marketing platform Taboola have quietly ponied up the money to keep their ads from being blocked on Adblock Plus, the world's most popular...
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New-style ransomware locks out your customers - demands money to let them log...
The crooks took a low-key, annoyingly simple, and hard-to-spot approach. Change usernames like JIMMY to FKOVWH3Z7LUV, but hide the changes...for a while, anyway.
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Revenge-porn website operator Kevin Bollaert guilty of identity theft and...
Kevin Bollaert was behind ugotposted.com and its companion extortion site, which would take down frantic victims' photos (for a tidy sum, of course).
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D-Link routers vulnerable to DNS hijacking
A newly discovered vulnerability in the ZynOS firmware used by popular routers may leave some models at risk of DNS hijacking
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Internet Explorer has a Cross Site Scripting zero-day bug
Another day, another zero-day. This time, it's Internet Explorer that is attracting the sort of publicity a browser doesn't want, with the public disclosure of an XSS bug.
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